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The Harmonica

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DIATONIC
Most harmonicas are diatonic, tuned to a single key, which is exactly why that lonesome, bending wail is so expressive and so hard to escape.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
TREMOLO
A tremolo harmonica pairs two reeds per hole, tuned slightly apart, so the notes shimmer against each other with every breath, a sound as warm as a campfire.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BEND
Bending a note means subtly reshaping the mouth cavity to drop the pitch mid-blow, a technique that puts the soul into blues and country harmonica playing.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHROMATIC
A chromatic harmonica adds a side button that shifts all the reeds by a semitone, opening up every key on a single instrument, the choice of jazz great Toots Thielemans.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Free harmonica word search, blues wails and reed bends in the grid, no sign-up and nothing to pay.

About The Harmonica

Cup it in both hands, lift it to your lips, and the harmonica answers with something between a cry and a whisper. Ten holes, a row of tiny metal reeds, and the whole blues scale lives inside your breath, draw in, blow out, and the notes bloom. From Delta front porches to Dylan's neck brace on a Carnegie Hall stage, the mouth harp has carried longing and joy in equal measure.

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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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